Re: Unicode Symbol for compact display of const attribute

[James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

>>>>> "Nordlöw" == Nordlöw  <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:

Nordlöw> Does anyone know of any unicode symbol suitable for
Nordlöw> representing the const attribute (in other other IDEs
Nordlöw> such as Xcode and Anjuta typically expressed as a boxed
Nordlöw> somewhat smaller capital C)?

There is no single character in The UCS for that.  Therefore it
is encoded as either the sequence of:

,----[ composition of "C⃞" ]
| U+0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C      [ C]
| U+20DE COMBINING ENCLOSING SQUARE  [ ⃞]
`----

,----[ composition of "ᴄ⃞" ]
| U+1D04 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL C  [ ᴄ]
| U+20DE COMBINING ENCLOSING SQUARE    [ ⃞]
`----

Or, in a Math context you might choose one of the C characters from
the MATHEMATICAL block starting at U+1D400, combined with U+20DE.

(As a side note, in this message-mode buffer the first composition is
not combining, nor are the NBSP+Combining sequences.  But the small cap
sequence is doing so.  (CVS HEAD, tip as of 2008/07/07T11:30:00Z or so.)


-JimC
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